The reporting system for CUIP-NSP Tech is based in a WordPress site or blog located at Reporting.cuip3.org . (A previous URL was Reporting.cuip.net, and if you use that old address DNS should redirect you correctly.)
CUIP/NSP Reporting blog URL in browser
When you go to Reporting.cuip3.org, before you can even read the site let alone write to it, you need to sign in at an "outer" login window managed not by the Word Press blogging software but by the Apache web server. This layer is intended to keep our reports and comments relatively private. The username and password for this outer layer login are sent in the weekly reporting reminder email. Here is an example of what the login window looks like, in this case in IE.
Outer (Apache) login -- see email for user and password
You are welcome to browse and see what else has been going on and your colleagues' take on it -- indeed, that is encouraged, as is making comments using the blog's commenting facility.
When you are ready to work on your report, you need to log in, at the "inner layer" managed by the Word Press blogging software. The usernames from the old Reporting blog did get transferred over, but evidently not the passwords. So please try a sign-in and, if you need to, do a password-reminder/password-change operation. (Or create a new sign-in identity; but please make it relate to the name we know you by.) Or for now, use the same shared username and password as for the outer (Apache) privacy login.
Click on the "Log in" link, in the Login section in the right side rail. (If there is no "Log in" link but instead a "Site admin" one, your browser has resumed a session with you already logged in. That's fine, just use the "Site admin" link.)
In the full-page Word Press login window please enter your individual username and password. (If you do not have one yet, you can obtain one using the Register link; or if that's impractical at the time then you can use the same shared login as you used at the outer, Apache, level.
Your report can be any text that conveys your activities and events at your school. But we recommend starting with a template we have provided. It can be found on a WordPress page called "Template for NSP weekly report". You can get to that page from a link near the top in the outside (non-dashboard) view, as illustrated here; or via the Pages list if you are starting from the dashboard view.
The "Template for NSP weekly report" page has text in "Header-Name colon Blank-field-or-starter" format. If you select and copy the text while viewing this template page, you can be prepared to paste it from your clipboard into the editor tool for the body of your report a couple of steps later. (Click on image to enlarge.)
Now you are ready to write your report. You want to invoke an editing area, from an "Add New" or"Add New Post" link or tool button. (Most of the content in a Word Press blog is in articles of two kinds, called Pages and Posts; which in turn contain text and media.)
One place to find an "Add New" or"Add New Post" link or tool button, as of WP version 3.1, is on the outside (non-dashboard) view, at the top, above even the blog's main title area.
Or you can use the heretofore required method of going to the "inside" or dashboard view. You get there via the "Log in" link in the Meta section of the left rail; the label on this changes to "Site Admin" if you have already signed in.
(If you had not already signed in, and used the link when it carries the label "Log in" rather than "Site Admin", the system will take you on a short detour thru a full-page WordPress sign-in screen, as illustrated earlier on this page; after which, it will show you the dashboard view.)
In the Dashboard view, you can get to an "Add New" or"Add New Post" link by clicking on the push-pin tool icon at the top of the vertical toolbar running down the left edge.
Working from the Dashboard view, were the Add New Post link is.
By either route, using the "Add New" or"Add New Post" link or tool button should get you a page with a large text-edit area and associated anagement and classfication tool areas. (Click on image to enlarge.)
The Add New Post editor.
Write some sort of headline or title in the topmost single-line edit field. This title will show up various places, such as on links in the "recent posts" list, for example.
In the main text-edit area below the editing toolbar, you might want to paste the the text from the "Template for NSP weekly report" page, if that is still in your clipboard.
(Click on image to enlarge.)
Filling in the new post. Write a headline. In the main area, paste the template and edit from that text. Note also Tags in upper rght.
Whether you are using the template or going free-form, please cover anything significant.
If you mention a web site that you worked on, or one which was a useful resource, please post the URL or make a link.
Please also help to CLASSIFY your report. There are two kinds of classification tools in WordPress, called Tags and Categories. Both appear as links or selectors on the outside view, allowing a visitor at the site to retrieve all articles that have been marked with a particular Tag or Category. The distinction between the two is not very dramatic, but it can be said that Tags tend to be treated as more improvisational or spontaneous and are user-generated, while Categories tend to be used less flexibly and are often set up administratively. Our use of Tags and Categories pretty well fits those patterns.
In the illustration just above, notice that some Tags have been filled in, in the medium-small box on the upper right. The person making this report has typed some wrds/phrases that might apply to the week's activity at the school. In the illustration, there are three tags, separated by commas. A multi-word string can be a tag, and does not require quotation marks to hold it together as a single tag: the comma-grouping handles that.
We try to use Categories mostly to lay groundwork for retrieval by selecting the school or the person doing the reports. WP allows for some structuring of main- and sub-Categories, and we make use of that just to keep the lists of people and of schools separate (without expecting the higher-level Categories "School" and "Person Reporting" to be of any other use n themselves.)
The next three illustrations show the management of Categories. In the first one, we are deselecting (unchecking) the default selection of the super-Category "Person Reporting":
In the Catrgories area on the right, deselect "Person reporting".
Then selecting the individual category for the particular person doing this report. (If you are new and don't see a category for your name, we might have missed making it :( ! Just let somebody know.)
In the Categories, select you name.
And finally selecting the school.
Still in Categories, select your school (which will be in indented sublist under Schools).
Okay, almost done!
Towards the right, below the Tags and above the Categories, is a Save / Publish area. And that's what you should do now: either Publish or Save Draft (depending on whether you feel your report is ready for sharing). By the way, it's possible to go back in and edit after publishing, so even if you tend to perfectionism you can press Publish even if you wrote your report in a hurry.
Finally, press Publish when ready! (Or Save Draft if not quite ready.)
CUIP/NSP-Tech Reporting Procedures and Messages
How-To Details for using the Reporting Blog
The reporting system for CUIP-NSP Tech is based in a WordPress site or blog located at Reporting.cuip3.org . (A previous URL was Reporting.cuip.net, and if you use that old address DNS should redirect you correctly.)
You are welcome to browse and see what else has been going on and your colleagues' take on it -- indeed, that is encouraged, as is making comments using the blog's commenting facility.
When you are ready to work on your report, you need to log in, at the "inner layer" managed by the Word Press blogging software. The usernames from the old Reporting blog did get transferred over, but evidently not the passwords. So please try a sign-in and, if you need to, do a password-reminder/password-change operation. (Or create a new sign-in identity; but please make it relate to the name we know you by.) Or for now, use the same shared username and password as for the outer (Apache) privacy login.
Click on the "Log in" link, in the Login section in the right side rail. (If there is no "Log in" link but instead a "Site admin" one, your browser has resumed a session with you already logged in. That's fine, just use the "Site admin" link.)
In the full-page Word Press login window please enter your individual username and password. (If you do not have one yet, you can obtain one using the Register link; or if that's impractical at the time then you can use the same shared login as you used at the outer, Apache, level.
Your report can be any text that conveys your activities and events at your school. But we recommend starting with a template we have provided. It can be found on a WordPress page called "Template for NSP weekly report". You can get to that page from a link near the top in the outside (non-dashboard) view, as illustrated here; or via the Pages list if you are starting from the dashboard view.
The "Template for NSP weekly report" page has text in "Header-Name colon Blank-field-or-starter" format. If you select and copy the text while viewing this template page, you can be prepared to paste it from your clipboard into the editor tool for the body of your report a couple of steps later. (Click on image to enlarge.)
Now you are ready to write your report. You want to invoke an editing area, from an "Add New" or"Add New Post" link or tool button. (Most of the content in a Word Press blog is in articles of two kinds, called Pages and Posts; which in turn contain text and media.)
One place to find an "Add New" or"Add New Post" link or tool button, as of WP version 3.1, is on the outside (non-dashboard) view, at the top, above even the blog's main title area.
Or you can use the heretofore required method of going to the "inside" or dashboard view. You get there via the "Log in" link in the Meta section of the left rail; the label on this changes to "Site Admin" if you have already signed in.
(If you had not already signed in, and used the link when it carries the label "Log in" rather than "Site Admin", the system will take you on a short detour thru a full-page WordPress sign-in screen, as illustrated earlier on this page; after which, it will show you the dashboard view.)
In the Dashboard view, you can get to an "Add New" or"Add New Post" link by clicking on the push-pin tool icon at the top of the vertical toolbar running down the left edge.
By either route, using the "Add New" or"Add New Post" link or tool button should get you a page with a large text-edit area and associated anagement and classfication tool areas. (Click on image to enlarge.)
Write some sort of headline or title in the topmost single-line edit field. This title will show up various places, such as on links in the "recent posts" list, for example.
In the main text-edit area below the editing toolbar, you might want to paste the the text from the "Template for NSP weekly report" page, if that is still in your clipboard.
(Click on image to enlarge.)
Whether you are using the template or going free-form, please cover anything significant.
If you mention a web site that you worked on, or one which was a useful resource, please post the URL or make a link.
Please also help to CLASSIFY your report. There are two kinds of classification tools in WordPress, called Tags and Categories. Both appear as links or selectors on the outside view, allowing a visitor at the site to retrieve all articles that have been marked with a particular Tag or Category. The distinction between the two is not very dramatic, but it can be said that Tags tend to be treated as more improvisational or spontaneous and are user-generated, while Categories tend to be used less flexibly and are often set up administratively. Our use of Tags and Categories pretty well fits those patterns.
In the illustration just above, notice that some Tags have been filled in, in the medium-small box on the upper right. The person making this report has typed some wrds/phrases that might apply to the week's activity at the school. In the illustration, there are three tags, separated by commas. A multi-word string can be a tag, and does not require quotation marks to hold it together as a single tag: the comma-grouping handles that.
We try to use Categories mostly to lay groundwork for retrieval by selecting the school or the person doing the reports. WP allows for some structuring of main- and sub-Categories, and we make use of that just to keep the lists of people and of schools separate (without expecting the higher-level Categories "School" and "Person Reporting" to be of any other use n themselves.)
The next three illustrations show the management of Categories. In the first one, we are deselecting (unchecking) the default selection of the super-Category "Person Reporting":
Then selecting the individual category for the particular person doing this report. (If you are new and don't see a category for your name, we might have missed making it :( ! Just let somebody know.)
And finally selecting the school.
Okay, almost done!
Towards the right, below the Tags and above the Categories, is a Save / Publish area. And that's what you should do now: either Publish or Save Draft (depending on whether you feel your report is ready for sharing). By the way, it's possible to go back in and edit after publishing, so even if you tend to perfectionism you can press Publish even if you wrote your report in a hurry.
That's it! Thanks for filing your reports.
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